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The many faces of Tobias PickerPhoto courtesy Tobias Picker Mix a love triangle with a murder and you’ve likely got some very good raw material for an opera. At the end of the month, the Dallas Opera will test the theory when they premiere Thérèse Raquin by composer Tobias Picker. Based on the novel of […]

MacArthur Fellow Bright ShengPhoto by Wah Lui, courtesy Schirmer Composer Bright Sheng has been named one of this year’s 23 recipients of MacArthur Fellowships granted by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The prestigious award recognizes exceptional individuals working at the fore of a wide variety of disciplines — from astrophysics to creative […]

American composer Pierre Jalbert has been named the winner in the second Masterprize composer competition. He picked up a cash award of £30,000 given by the BBC and EMI during an awards ceremony presided over by the Duchess of Kent.

Joseph DaltonPhoto by Dorothy Alexander, Courtesy Composers Recordings, Inc. Though the AIDS epidemic doesn’t get the media play it once did, its impact on the cultural community in this country has not ended just because the issue has fallen off the general public’s radar. The Estate Project, a program of the Alliance for the Arts, […]

Don’t want your instrument in cargo? Start considering alternate means of transportation. The recent tightening of security at airports across the nation has musicians worried that they may no longer be able to carry fragile instruments into the plane with them. Airlines have long made their own ambiguous rules regarding passengers traveling with instruments. Sales […]

Left to right William Duckworth, Jon Child, Nora FarrellPhoto courtesy Monroe Street Over 100 artists and composers are lined up to perform live as part of a 48-hour continuous webcast, the crowning moment thus far of composer William Duckworth‘s Cathedral 2001 project. This festival of music on the Internet, which will run November 30 through […]

This month we “surveyed” 44 recordings of new music, and we have with us two “families” who will battle it out on the sea green and pink soundstage for the honor of their family name, or -ism as it were.

Don GillespiePhoto by Sabine Matthes In September, Don Gillespie stepped down from his post as Director of Copyright as well as Vice President and Director of the Board at the C.F. Peters Corporation, bringing to a close a career that has spanned 31 years. During that time, Gillespie established an outstanding reputation among friends and […]

Jennifer Higdon: Professor of Composition, Theory, and History at CurtisPhoto courtesy Jennifer When I call Jennifer Higdon to talk about her recent promotion to Professor of Composition, Theory, and History at the Curtis Institute of Music, she seems surprised that anyone has been paying attention. When it happened, she says, “It didn’t seem like a […]

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